Anton Winterink

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Anton Winterink (born November 5, 1914 in Arnhem , † July 6, 1944 in Brussels ) was an anti-fascist resistance fighter in the Netherlands who worked for the Soviet military intelligence service GRU in the network of the Red Orchestra .

Life

During the Second World War , Winterink lived in Brussels and took an active part in the work of the communist movement. He was an important functionary of the Red Aid in the Netherlands. In 1938 he created the “Hilde” intelligence network, which was later integrated into the Red Chapel. The group's radio operators were trained by Johann Wenzel (1902–1969) in early 1939. From late 1940 to mid-1942, "Hilde" supported the bilateral radio link with Moscow via the Soviet embassy in London with the help of three radios. At the same time, the group supported Konstantin Jefremow (* 1910), a GRU resident who had connections to the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland .

On August 18 (or September 16) 1942 Winterink was the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle the Gestapo arrested in Amsterdam. Nine members of the group with two remaining radios were not detected and continued to work. A total of 17 people from the Winterinks group were arrested. He himself stayed in Brussels, where he was interrogated intensively for two weeks. As a result, his radio began to send messages under the direction of the Gestapo as early as September 22, 1942. The Gestapo tried to use Winterink's transmitter for a radio game with Moscow, but was unsuccessful, as the members of the group who had remained free had already reported the arrests in Moscow. When the Germans requested money from headquarters in the summer under the name of Winterink and gave the address of a former member of the Communist Party to whom the money was to be sent, Moscow, after several evasive replies, convinced the wrong Winterink to give them the address of the person who works with the Gestapo. In March 1944, the Winterink headquarters ordered the broadcasts to be stopped. Four months later, Winterink was shot dead on the Tir National in Brussels and buried anonymously there. The grave site is single grave 312 in row II.

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  1. ↑ Leopold Trepper : The Truth: Autobiography of the "Grand Chef" of the Red Orchestra . dtv: Munich 1978, p. 371. ISBN 3-423-01387-7 ( Online (Russian) )
  2. ↑ Ger Harmsen, Rondom Daan Goulooze. Uit het leven van communisten, Nijmegen 1980.
personal data
SURNAME Winterink, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnhem
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1944
Place of death Brussels